Faith is “unjustified belief”; Atheists have justifications for their beliefs
It does not take "faith" to believe in the absence of something, it takes healthy skepticism.
How much faith do you have to have to not believe that a Great Cosmic Cat runs the universe? Not much, actually. Religion seeks to overturn the burden that goes with making a statement of fact.
Religious people and their apologists confuse "faith" with confidence and skepticism. To make a claim of existence, you require a burden of proof. There is no burden to prove non-existence… because requiring somebody to prove a negative is unfair play. It is the positive statements of fact that have to be proven.
I am quite confident that (1) there is absolutely no way to prove statements of faith - they are "statements of faith" because they are unproveable, (2) most religions posit that they bear no burden of proof because the alternative is insurmountable, (3) all quacks and seers (the other bogus pursuits of man) put forward the same exact claims, (4) science is very, very, clearly constantly claiming more and more knowledge of reality and each step of the way reducing the unknowns that "faiths" claim to explain.
It doesn’t take "faith" to follow the relentless march of science as it destroys the remnants of the inventions that opportunistic man has created to oppress his fellows.
Atheists are not religious. When man only believes that those beliefs which are justified can form the basis of their actions the world will not be of a particular religion; it will be of none.
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